Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> James Worlton <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>>...
>>Since exploding onto the scene in the early 1980s, be like, as in
>>the example below, is well on its way to becoming the preferred way
>>that younger speakers quote themselves and others in conversation.
>>
>>(1) It took ten-minutes for the damn things to die
>> and I’m like, “Can I put on the lid?”
>> And she’s like, “No, it ruins it.”
>> and I was like, “This is horrifying.”
>
>
> WAAAH! I hate this! :-)
>
> In Germany, the same habit exists for young people and it drives me
> crazy that they cannot talk normally. In German it goes:
>
> und ich so: ,...'
> dann sie so: ,...'
> ich so: ,...'
> ...
>